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Tonight The Girl and I will be watching Dirt! The Movie. While browsing movie titles, it was listed as a Top 5 Food Documentary. It highlights the good, bad, and the ugly of our farming practices, and examines human beings relationship with dirt, and how our need to alter it may lead to our ruining Read More >>
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Susan from Australia left this comment yesterday on the A Front Yard Garden: Eye-Sore or Rightful Use of Space article. Hi from Australia Mavis! We have a great gardening show on TV here called “Gardening Australia” (available on ABC iview if you can get that app). The host Costa spent most of last year showing us how Read More >>
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You are not going to believe this, but I have a new best friend. Her name is Jen and she works for Clif Bar. Jen heard about my plans to walk/run/jog the Tacoma City Marathon this May and she decided to send me some loot. Holy nuts and berries! I’m not exactly sure how Jen knew my Read More >>
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I knew I was going to be out in the backyard garden for awhile today, so I went ahead and walked over to the chicken run to let the hens out to forage. After about 5 minutes I noticed Martha and Squirlly were still in the run and they were making little clucking noises. I Read More >>
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This morning I planted a packet of Rosemary seeds and placed them under grow lights in the office. This is the first time I have ever attempted to grow rosemary from seed so I’m pretty excited. As I was reading the seed packet I noticed it said rosemary was deer resistant. Oh.Happy.Day. This means I can totally Read More >>
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Do you ever feel like you are the last person alive to find out about things? Well imagine my surprise when I was over at Girly Girl’s house yesterday and noticed she had baked potatoes cooking in her crock pot. Are you serious? Mavis: Are those potatoes? Girly Girl: Uhhh, yes. Mavis: You can make Read More >>
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Living in high-maintenance suburbia comes with a ton of positives and negatives. On one hand, I can walk down the street and be fairly confident I will cast my eyes on pretty manicured lawns. A Trans-Am on cinder blocks with a blue tarp covering it, or an old rusty RV in the front yard wouldn’t last Read More >>
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Yesterday afternoon I headed out to the garden to start work on expanding the rock border in front of our viburnum hedge. It was a little tough going because the ground was still a wee bit frozen, but I did manage to dig up all the old bark to make room for the expansion. I’m Read More >>
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